Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Wake Me Up Before I Blow Blow

It's been coming and going of late, but this week the all-day-all-night morning sickness has been coming with a vengeance. Lay-me-out-on-the-floor-and-wrack-me-with-nausea-when-I-should-be-packing-and-painting-and-trying-to-sell-a-house-and-oh-yeah-caring-for-my-very-possibly-bionic-toddler kinda vengeance.

It sucks, it just really sucks. When do I start glowing? When do I start facking glowing?

Rant over. Please send ginger ale wishes and Diclectin dreams.

And remind me why I wanted to do this pregnancy thing again?

(Right, yes, I know: more babies to love, more familial bliss, yadda yadda. At this point, that may not be enough. I'm goin g to need serious presents.)

I know. I remember. I think I still have post-traumatic stress flashbacks from it all. Pregnancy never made me glow...unless you count the fact that spending 75% of my day with my head bent over the toilet made my cheeks rosy.

i know you've probably gotten tons of advice, but here's one more. When I was pregnant the only thing that helped the nausea was green apples. Sounds weird but I bought the pre-sliced ones at the store and ate bags and bags of them during that first trimester.

Here's hoping you're getting close to the end of that morning sickness stuff.

I had the same thing. This pregnancy I was so sick that i wondered every day why I wanted another baby. I was that was for 14 weeks. Now that Ia m 18 week I feel better and I am getting excited. Take one day at a time. ((hugs))

This pregnancy I spent 12 weeks (almost to the day!) feeling like I'd been poisoned by progesterone and wishing I could just curl up somewhere and die... the whole time with a two year old bouncing off the ceiling wondering why I didn't want to play. One morning I woke up, suddenly clear-headed and feeling like I could run a marathon. This too shall pass. Hang in there.

you poor baby. i threw up every day for 27 weeks with my first, and still managed to forget how bad it was and do it again. I remember one day going shopping with my sister and her perfume made me so nauseous I made her sit in the back seat of the car, walk 10 paces behind me and scrub herself clean in the bathroom at second cup. it will pass, and eventually even the memory will fade!

I feel for you, I really do. My first pregnancy was easy-peasy and this one is lots o'barfing and the thought of barfing... my poor 2 yr old imitates me gagging and such...but 2 weeks to go until all this is over and baby is here...

I never glowed. I was just . . . sick. A lot. Until the fifth month or so. And then I wasn't nauseous anymore, but my back hurt, my hips hurt, my feet hurt, my ribs hurt, and I had to pee every ten minutes, so I really couldn't muster much glow then, either.

The thing that kept me sane was a shopping trip, nothing flamboyant (its hard to to flamboyant with a chucky bag in one hand!) but a small shopping trip where I went and purchased a gender neutral cutesy outfit for baby to come home from the hospital in!! It hangs up on the wardrobe door at the end of my bed and I look at it trying to think what the parasite will look like wearing it. Yes its still there, am 25 weeks up now and am waiting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, oh the spewing stopped a while ago but I still feel nausea everyday.

Ah, yeah that's called selective memore because a mere year from now you won't remember the hacking being so bad, the naseau will be "not so bad" and you'll think, that pregnancy stuff is pretty easy isn't it....?

Mmmm...gingerale.Also, talk to your pharmacist about adding gravol to the mix. MotherRisk says that if you are taking 4 diclectin a day and still feeling sick, you can add up to 4 gravol a day. I found that this helped me.